Mountain Range Drawings

These are a few of the Mountain Range Pastel drawings we did as a class.

Our class has done mountain range pictures for our art class. We were utilizing our entire art mornings and some of us stayed inside class in order to finish these wonderful drawings. We first drew the shape of the mountain which involved various amounts and sizes of lines. The lines first took shape of the mountain. Then we would add little cracks or edges here and there using oil pastels. When we finished drawing our lines, we would use our fingers or different parts of the hand to smudge the lines we made. We would overlap it with some color as well, such as; blue purple or pink to make the picture look a lot better. We did have to know where the smudges would go and which way, because if the smudges went the wrong way from the "sun" that we use, then the picture is WAY off. The last part (One of my favorite parts) was the sky. We had to make sure that the sun was in the proper place on where we intended it to be.  For example, in the middle, top drawing, the person wanted the sun to create shadows from the middle, so what the person did was, the smudges went the opposite direction of the sun and towards the outside of the paper. This person had a more variety of lines which made the picture look even better.

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